ISBN:
9781412934367
,
9781847877819
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 383 p)
,
ill., maps
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Global Civil Society - Year Books
Parallel Title:
Print version Global Civil Society 2006/7
DDC:
306.205
Keywords:
International relations
;
Civil society
;
Civil society
;
International relations
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The annual Global Civil Society Yearbooks provide an indispensable guide to global civil society or civic participation and action around the world. The Yearbook includes commissioned contributions from leading commentators across the social sciences on the latest issues and developments, explores and presents the latest approaches to measuring and analyzing global civil society and provides a chronology of key global civil society events in the year. The Global Civil Society Yearbook remains the standard work on all aspects of contemporary global civil society for activists, practitioners, st
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Introduction: Violence and the possibility of global civility; Chapter 1 - 'Not even a tree': Delegitimising violence and the prespects for pre-emptive civility; Chapter 2 - Bringing violence 'back home': Gender socialisation and the transmission of violence through time and space; Chapter 3 - Pipe dream or Panacea? Global civil society and economic and social rights; Chapter 4 - War and peace: The role of global civil society; Chapter 5 - Water: A global contestation; Chapter 6 - The church, the mosque, and global civil society
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 7 - The odd couple: Football and global civil societyFuzzy set approaches to the study of global civil society; Data Programme; Glossary; Chronology of global civil society events; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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